Arati Prabhakar is researching the ecosystem of research and development in the defense industry and technological military capabilities that will change lives around the world at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and was formerly the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA) for the Obama Administration. Formerly the CTO of Raychem, she also served as the head of the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1993 to 1997.